bell hooks

bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) wrote at the intersection of race, class, gender, and pedagogy. Her insistence on accessible prose and on love as political practice shaped Black feminist thought and critical pedagogy.

¶Core ideas

• Imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy: naming the integrated system rather than its parts
• Engaged pedagogy: teaching as a practice of freedom that requires the teacher’s own self-actualization
• Love as political: love as ethical commitment, not sentiment

¶Key works

• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981)
• Teaching to Transgress (1994)
• All About Love: New Visions (2000)